Do you believe there were highly advanced civilisations on Earth before the last Ice Age now lost to history?

Question

Just to be clear, we are talking about long before Atlantis here.

As for finding no archaeological trace of such a civilisation I could suggest a number of possible reasons. For one, more than 170 million years ago, Antarctica, now the fifth largest continent, was part of the supercontinent Gondwana. Over time Gondwana broke apart and Antarctica as we know it today was formed around 25 million years ago. During the Cambrian period Gondwana had a mild climate. Even after the breakup of Gondwana about 65 million years ago Antarctica (then connected to Australia) still had a tropical to subtropical climate, Not until about 40 million years ago after Australia-New Guinea separated from Antarctica did the first ice began to appear. Currently about 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice sheet is, on average, 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) thick. No one has yet explored beneath that ice to see what is there.

Answer 1

The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago.

There was almost certainly civilization at the time of the end of the last ice age - civilization meaning people living in cities. There is sufficient evidence to believe that there were coastal civilizations in the Black Sea and perhaps along the NW coast of India and other places. The rising sea level when the ice age ended destroyed the cities.

These were not technologically advanced civilizations as we would consider them. They were developed civilizations for the ancient world - probably on par with Sumeria or Minoan.

Remember that ancient civilizations were fully developed with elaborate laws, specialized occupations, taxes, bureaucracy, etc. They were very similar to our modern civilizations just with lower technology.

When you say before Atlantis - it is pretty well established that Atlantis refers to the island of Thera which was part of the minoan civilization in the Aegean Sea and was destroyed by a volcano long after the last ice age.

Answer 2

Nope. no longer a shred of evidence exists that would want to help that idea. also - Atlantis develop into no longer a continent even with the indisputable fact that the volcanic island of Santorini (Thera) close to Crete that blew up and destroyed fairly some the island. Archeology has shown the Minoan way of existence to be very more suitable for his or her cases (that they had indoor plumbing) and that's totally conceivable that they were the Atlantis that Plato wrote about many years later after listening to memories of it. The Minoans of Santorini's major trading companions were the Egyptians. The memories Plato heard and wrote about in his memories of Atlantis got here from the Egyptians.

Answer 3

Who's to say that such a civilization has been lost? It could have been here all this time, but unrecognizable within our perspective. In other words, we may be in the midst of another civilization and simply not recognize it for what it is.

Think about that the next time you look around and assume that a rock is just a rock.

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Answer 4

Why not? They probably weren't advanced the way we consider ourselves to be advanced, or there would be some archeological evidence left (structures, tools, some type of time capsule intentionally left for posterity), but they may have been advanced in different ways. Perhaps there was a whole civilization of psychics!

Answer 5

It is possible but not probable. A highly advanced civilization needs to expand, it´s axiomatic. So some traces would have been found by now.

Answer 6

Unlikely but not completely impossible. We would probably have found some trace of them by now.

Answer 7

Extraordinary claims require extra ordinary evidence, otherwise is just fanciful thinking. One scintella of evidence is all that is needed. It is possible, but not very likely.

Answer 8

dude , no tehonoly was present but stil science prevailed before Ice Age because earht was just a ball of fire .

Answer 9

NO!